Wine 1.0 should come out in June this year

Wine 1.0 should come out in June this year

The developers behind the Wine (Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and UNIX) project have revealed that they are planning to launch the version 1.0 of the popular application in June this year.

Wine project has been under development for almost 15 years now and it is yet to touch the Version 1 market.

The developers wrote on the project website:

Alexandre stated back in October 2007 that he knew of no 1.0 release blockers even then, and suggested we pick Wine’s 15th anniversary for the actual date. Depending on how you look at it, there are several possible birthdays for Wine, mainly:

1 June 1993 – Dan Dulitz said he was writing something like Wine

8 Jul 1993 – the first Wine ChangeLog entry

Given that the exact birthday is a bit fuzzy, we’ll simply continue with our normal biweekly release dats. That puts the 1.0 release at June 6th if it’s ready by then, or June 20th or July 4th if it’s not.

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